The AI Fix episodes

16: GPT-4o1, AI time travelers, and where’s my driverless car?

In episode 16 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet GPT-4o1 and ask if it knows how many cousins Alice’s sister has, a top cop wants AI injected into his colleagues “like heroin”, Mark finds an AI that might actually be able to help with that, and our hosts start a conspiracy theory about…

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15: AI robot butlers and gigawatt banana highways

In episode 15 of The AI Fix, Graham learns there’s one W in Mississippi, ChatGPT finds Mark’s G-spot, nobody watches Megalopolis, Alexa is unmasked as a “commie operative”, and our hosts learn that AI will soon need dedicated nuclear reactors. Graham introduces Mark to a forlorn robot butler folding a shirt, and Mark explains why…

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14: There are two Rs in “strawberry”, and an AI makes unsmellable smells

In episode 14 of The AI Fix, Graham makes an apology, Mark wonders if suicide drones have second thoughts, people pretend to be robots, and some researchers prove that all you need for an AI to generate a somewhat usable version of the computer game Doom out of thin air is to already have a…

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13: ChatGPT runs for mayor, and should we stop killer robots?

In episode 13 of The AI Fix, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn’t pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, hear ChatGPT steal somebody’s voice, and discover an AI that…

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12: AI made from human brain cells, and is there life after death?

In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on “do no evil”, and our hosts feel like David Attenborough as they witness herds of…

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11: AI gods, a robot dentist, and an angry human

In episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there’s no sound on a video of an AI dentist. Graham finds religion with a little help from a man named “L Ron”, a…

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10: An AI cookery dumpster fire, the ARC prize, and a creepy new AI friend

In episode ten of The AI Fix, Graham attempts to say “quinoa”, Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying trailer for a creepy new AI friend. Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey mess,…

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9: When AI detectors fail (spectacularly), and OpenAI’s five steps to Skynet

In episode nine of “The AI Fix”, our hosts learn about the world’s most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI’s plans to eat Google’s lunch… Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham’s tolerance with OpenAI’s terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence. Episode links: Meta launches…

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8: Emergence, a rancid donkey, and the world’s funniest joke

In episode eight of “The AI Fix”, our hosts tackle the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence and learn about two important medical breakthroughs, Mark coughs, Graham ruins “Killing me softly”, and neither shows their junk to an AI. Graham explains humour to Mark and shares a donkey story he learned from a…

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7: Can AI speak dolphin and do robots lick toads?

In episode seven of “The AI Fix”, Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet. Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always…

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